Hello Johan, On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:16:05 +0200 Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote: > > op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef: > > Hello, > > > > > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote: > > > >> op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef: > >>> Hello Frank, > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple statement led to an all-day odyssey. > >>> [snip] > >>>> Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop? Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on something that used to take fifteen minutes. > >>> Dell Latitude series, from the old D810 to more recent E65xx ones. > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >> Hello All, > >> > >> when buying laptops I try to avoid Ati/Radeon cards, because of pas issues. > >> But maybe it would be all right now. > >> > >> Definitely no Broadcom wireless. > >> No Lenovo because of id/pairing protected cards. > >> In short, I look for laptops with as many Intel parts as possible. > >> > >> Although it is true that Amd is a lot of power for a buck. > > What's wrong w/ Broadcom wireless? Works fine here (Broadcom > > Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)), even > > if I had to install their driver (it's well documented on the CentOS > > wiki). > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hello, > > as it says on the Centos wiki : > *ATTENTION:* This driver module is NOT persistent across kernel > upgrades (i.e. when you update the kernel, and boot the newly > installed one, you'll have to do this over again). > > That's a bit inconvenient. Well well, here I upgraded kernels thru the updates many times, never had to reinstall the driver module, it simply works - and now I wonder why! :-) Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20141002/1e635021/attachment-0005.sig>